Tag: Amazon

Amazon Gets Into The Textbook Renting Business
Your local college textbook store now has another competitor - and it's a big one. Amazon has just begun to allow students to rent print textbooks for what they say can be up to 7...
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Jeff Bezos Gives $2.5 Million To Back Same-Sex Marriage In Washington
In February, the Washington State legislature passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in the state. That bill had the backing of the Democratic Governor, Christine Gregoire....
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Amazon Earnings: Q2 Sales Up 29% (But Not Good Enough)
Amazon has released its Q2 financial results, missing analysts' expectations. The report includes net sales of $12.83 Billion, a 29% increase year-over-year. At the same time, net...
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Amazon Has More Than Just The Kindle Fire 2 In Store [Rumor]
Amazon is making the Kindle Fire 2. It's not a matter of if, but rather a matter of when...
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Although Everyone’s Mining Your Data, Facebook Remains The Most Distrusted
Online properties collect, analyze, and later use various types of your personal data. This is a fact of life, and most people accept it. If you think that you're making moves on...
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Amazon Gets First Dibs On Streaming Fringe And The West Wing
Amazon is emerging as a major powerhouse in the video streaming business. Amazon Prime Instant Video is expanding at a faster rate than Netflix did in its early years and just scor...
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Amazon Enters The Free-To-Play Business With Game Connect
In just a few years, Amazon has gone from major retailer of physical games to major player in the digital games business. They beat Steam to the punch with a massive July sale that...
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WWJD? Read The Bible On A Christian Tablet
Religion and technology have traditionally been at odds. Whenever somebody creates a new innovative technology, somebody somewhere is going to say it's of the devil. It's just the...
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Amazon Starts To Take Kindle Fire Gaming Seriously
It's pretty much accepted that gaming is the killer app for tablets and other mobile devices. People can not get enough of them. Apple and Google have been pretty proactive in this...
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Is Hulu’s CEO Heading To Facebook?
Hulu CEO Jason Kilar has just jumped from one rumor whirlwind to another, as the New York Post...
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Amazon Planning To Build An iPhone Competitor?
Remember when Amazon was just an online bookstore? Man, those were the days. Palm and Handspring were making PDAs, email was finally catching on, and most of us still had to call t...
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Nexus 7 vs. Kindle Fire: Which Should Get Your $200?
When Google unveiled the Nexus 7 at Google I/O last week, it struck right at t...
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Amazon Signals Plan to Enter 3D Map Market with UpNext Acquisition
Amazon has put its best mapping foot forward today and purchased 3D-mapping startup UpNext for an undisclosed amount, according to a report from...
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Can Google’s Compute Engine Compete With Amazon?
Google impressed today with the reveal of Compute Engine, a cloud infr...
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